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Trucking the Universe

You drive a pickup truck, which you equipped with jumping abilities. You ride your truck in the universe of mini-planets by jumping from one planet to another. Oh and btw, your brakes are not working.
Today you're going with your truck to the shop to get some beer.

Pros: The graphics are excellent. Points for "BEER GET"
Cons: Not really a con, but your main link crashes at 15/23
Excellent game, with suprise difficulty after you've practiced with the booze run. 4/5
Thoughts: Some ukelele music would have been suitable for the beer run, so you could complete the redneck mood.

Great game! I'm ussually sceptical about one-button games, but this one is really fun. The second part is very hard. The planets look great too. Very smart way to make them look like they are rotating. :)

@Hazard, Thanks! Earlier version used arrows to control braking and direction, but I caught myself being too lazy to actually use them... hopefully it won't piss off too many people, I'm usually skeptical about one-button-games too.

Really awesome mechanic! Something novel, but not outstaying its welcome. The "second part" especially was a lot of fun (with the added pressure). Like some other people have said, a background music track would be nice, but even without, I had a lot of fun.

It definitely took me a while to figure out that the jump went straight off the planet rather than following any angle, but once I got that it was pretty playable. The graphics could be modified a bit to make it more obvious, I suppose.

Running from the monster was definitely cool. There were times I felt like I was unavoidably stuck, but I kept playing until I beat it. Nice work :).

@jplur,@mneubrand, thanks!
@TyrusPeace, I might experiment with other jumping mechanics to make a better game out of it. I'm not sure yet how the truck-graphic can be modified to make a 90-degree angle jump upwards more obvious :P, though I agree, it isn't intuitive with the current truck.

Wow, lots of comments, thanks you all for playing and input.
@FireSlash, I first imagined the 'planets' to be amoeba/cells which did not collide but bigger ones eating smaller ones ala Osmos. This was however even more WTF, so I went for colliding planets.
@gavin5564, indeed, those 'segmented' monsters are a blast to code with often cool results.

Solid marks from me. The planet eating monster turns this game from goofy fun into serious business. That said, I kept dying until the beer store planet disappeared, and still didn't get anywhere near the finish. With the speed of the truck and the size of the smaller planets, it felt like luck.

Good game, sir. It could use some music to reinforce the feel, but overall, it scores points across the board for cleverness. Shame I couldn't actually win; is the worm supposed to eat the shop planet eventually? At any rate, two thumbs up: some more polish (maybe space the planets out a bit more so navigation isn't such a hassle?) and this could be one of the best entries.

Cool entry, but I eventually got so frustrated dealing with the monster that I gave up. It just gets too difficult to always jump at exactly the correct time when the movement is so fast. I'd say slow things down every time you die, or have less planets, or just make everything closer (the last option may be best, as I got bored getting the beer eventually).

Thanks for all the comments. I've worked on the game some more to include some of the suggestions. The new version has:
- forward jumping (instead of upward)
- slower driving speed (so you don't miss your jumps)
- shop cannot be eaten by worm anymore
- several fixes, like more robust preloading

Hah! Boy am I glad that driving is not really like that. The worm was scary since it reminded me of the experience of watching the movie Tremors. The game was quite challenging and sort of nauseating but I played through it and had a good time! :)